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St. Paul daily globe., 1887-03-01
ASKING FOR JUSTICE.
New suits He.un--Paying Personal
TaNes-.-Vari Court Notes

EaNes-..V0ri Court Notes.
George II. Brown filed in the district
court yesterday papers beginning suit
against Harriet O'Brien and j. X. O'Brian
to recover $500 alleged to be due on real
estate transaction. He alleges that on Dec.
21. 1856, he sold to the defendants for
S11, 200, lot 6, block 2S. of Windom's ad-
dition. They paid him $11. 900, but now
refuse to pay the remainder. The plaintiff
asks that in case the money is not paid to
him on a day to be named by the court, the
property be sold.
OTHER COURT MATTERS.
Yesterday was the last day for paying per-
sonal taxes without having the ~ per cent.
penalty attached, and all day long the rush ut
the treaSurer'S Office was simply terrific. The
county auditors Office was FULL too, and the
employees of both Offices were kept rushing
Al the treasurer's office it was said fully one
half Of the persons paying personal taxes
had not yet put in an appearance, and if this
be true the number of delnquents will be
larger than ever before.
Calvin A. Tuttle, one Of the old settlers of
Minneapolis, has begun an action against the
University of Minnesota to quiet title to about
one and onehalf acres of land on the corner
of University and Eleventh avenues south
east. This land has long been part of the
campus. and has always been considered part
of the university grounds. 1t is worth some
| Sl2, coo. Many years ago Mr.. Tuttle entered
q large amount of land there, but has since
disposed of all except this one piece.
| The assignment of Beede s. Bray, made
public in Sundays GLOBE, was it is stated in
! the papers, filed in the district court, due to
an attachment issued by Squires Thomp-
son, The assignment was made to Henry 2.
Herring, instead Of ]. w. Cochrane, us at first
stated.
Mary johnson. about 2S years of age, was
ordered sent to the insane asylum yesterday.
Her insanity was caused by religious excite
ment.
Edwin Walden & Co. has begun an action
against J. W. Field to recover S3SS.20 alleged
to be due for merchandise purchased.
Mrs. James HI. Ege, who has been i'll for a
long time, is considerably better, and is now
able to sit up Il few hours each day.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-03-01
CLAIMS GREAT THINGS.
A New Device in Snow PIoVys TO b,
Exhibited TO-Day.

An ingenious device in the shape of
railroad snow plow will be exhibited this
afternoon in front of 424 Fourth street
south. 1t is the patent of Curtis NJ. Steen-
barger, of Harvard, Kan, and was manu-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-25

up SO worth of coal month. Even without
competition there could be no comparison
in cost between natural gas and coal as fuel.
For illumination burner that will make
from sixteen to forty-candle power, as you
happen to want it, costs in Oil CITY nine
cents month. The same amount of light in
Cincinnati will cost you about 81, If you pay
1t on or before the fifth of the month: other
wise It will chalk you up more.
Mr.. Earseman informed me that in his res
idence he burns three stoves and ten burn
ers, and his bill for twelve monts was So3
Mr.. p. G. Boyle, one of the editors of The
Delrlek, was present, and drew his last
months gas bill from his pocket. At his res
ldence ne used two stoves and ten burners
ana MS bill for the month was $1.9O. Coal
lor the stoves alone would have cost not less
than SIS. Mr.. Boyle said they burned about
100 lights every night, and all night, in the
Derrick office. and the cost was SO a month
Such gas bills as these would break Mr.
hlckenlooper's heart, but the Commercial Ga
zette has seen the actual bills as made out and
receipted by the gas company.
Within mile of Oil City florist heats his
greenhouse with natural gas, and his flow
ers bloom in the spring, tra-la, and long be-
fore the spring, while the cost to him is
next to nothing" as lie informed the
writer the other day. A chicken hatchery
taken from well in the neighborhood, and
1T works to the entire satisfaction of the pro-
prletor. Mr.. Earsman said he had seen
grass six inches high in the open air under a
gas flame that burned near an oil well, while
all around it the snow was foot deep,
AT Oil City there are two natural gas COM
panies drawing their supply from the same
district-the Oil City Fuel Supply Company
and the Manufacturers Gas Company. Over
$1,000,000 have been invested in the plants
The two companies have drilled about thirty
wells. When one well plays out, as it is
bound TO do in time, another one is drilled
and the supply kept up. 1t is not possible to
determine the life of any oil or gas well. The
old Newton gas well, near Titusville. pro-
duced in enormous quantities for five years,
yielding enough to have supplied the entire
City of Cincinnati during that time, and the
supply is not yet exhausted, although
it is nearly so. This well was struck fifteen
years ago. The big gas well at Fairview
blowed away for four years, wasting
fortune evers month. Some of the original
wells in the Murrysville or Pittsburg district
are still yielding in large quantities. The
pressure of gas escaping from the Pennsyl-
vania wells ranges from 100 to 800 pounds to
the square inch. Some wells are said to have
a pressure of 1000 pounds to the square inch
For five years the product of the Haymaker
well in the Murrysyille district was equiya-
lent in heating capacity to 1000 tons of coal
per day. This was all allowed to waste, as
at that time there was no line to Pttsburg.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-25
A Doodle cannaIen.

There can be no doubt that very strenuous
exertions are being put forth in certain quar-
tiers to elect Mr.. Charles Mccarthy to the
mayoralty. The work is being done silently.
but 1t is being done all the same. Contribu-
tions to the campaign fund are coming in
literally and at last accounts $1,000 had been
pledged for this purpose. What is the secret
of this anxiety to put Mr. Mccarthy into the
Mayors chair? This is an off year in poll
tics, there is no State election coming off next
fall, and therefore very little is to be gained
politically for the Democrats by electing Mr.
Mccarthy mayor. The custom house and
post Office have of course personal interest
in his election, as it would give them a
firm grip on the party in this city and enable
them to dictate its future movements. But
the zeal for Mr.. Mccarthy is by no means
confined to the custom house and post office
The contributions have not all come from
these sources. Some of them come from
State. 1t is not all political
booming that Mr.. Mccarthy is receiving.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-25

There is good deal of business in this cam
palgn in his behalf
Probably people are generally aware of
the fact that Mr.. Chapmanshas incurred the
hostility of number Of powerful interests
since he has been Mayor. He has been look
ing out too sharply for the eity's welfare and
has not shut his eyes to certain schemes that
were on foot to aggrandize their promoters
without regard to the interests Of the people
in general. All the promoters of these
schemes are "booming" Mr.. Mccarthy.
They have tried Mr. Chapman and found
him proof against their arguments and ban-
dishments With him in the mayors chair
they know that they will have no chance with
any scheme that may be inimlcal in the
slightest degree to the interests of the city.
They know too that they cannot pull wool
over his eyes. Therefore they do not want
him there. In this fact lies the secret of
their zeal to elect Mr., Mccarthy
We do not imagine that Mr.. Mccarthy has
given them any hint that he will
be wilfully blind to their schemes. He is too
honorable man to make a trade of any
such nature. But anybody is preferable to
them at this juncture in the Mayors chair
than Mr.. Chapman. Their hope is that
new man may not be so familiar with the
situation as he is, and may not,
therefore, see so clearly the ultimate pur-
pose of their Vaccinations. With Mr.. Chap
man they know that they cannot succeed.
With Mr.. Mccarthy they don't know that
they can, but they hope that they may. They
prefer the uncertainty of Mr.. Mccarthy to
the disagreeable certainty of Mr.. Chapman.
What is this campaign fund that is being
so rapidly accumulated to be used for? Does
anybody suppose it is to be spent for legiti-
mate purposes? Does anyone suppose the
intention is to devote it to holding meetings
and hiring brass bands ana circulating decu-
ments to show how it would be for the inter
ests of the city to defeat Mayor Chapman
and elect Mr.. Mccarthy? If there is such
an one his innocence is to be pitied. No,
there will be no meetings held, nor brass
bands employed, nor documents circulated.
Nevertheless this campaign fund will be felt.
and if the people do not bestir themselves
they may find themselves before they know
it in the grasp of certain soulless corpora
ftone
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-25

- Many expressions of disapprobation at the
proposal to build union depot at the ex-
IRENE end of Congress street come to us, and
they appear to have good foundation. Any
body by looking at plan of Portland can
see at glance that depot at that point will
be very remote from the business section of
the city, and from the great majority of
residences Indeed it would be hard to find
place within the city limits that would con-
venience so few of our citizens. Had the in
terest of the people of Portland been con-
suited that spot could never have been
chosen, for the practical effectof building a
depot at this point win be to make Portland
a way station.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-25
LOOK AT THE BARGAINS.

Mems All Wool Suits $500
andS6. 90, worth 300 and
$1,000.
Mems All Wool Suits So. 90
and $40, worth $I2 and $IS.
Mems Suits $I2 and SI5,
worth $40 and $25.
Mems Black Worsted Coats
and Vests only So each, cut
Prince Albert style, worth
$I2.
Mems 0vercoats $3.50 and
SIS, worth So and $40.
Mems overeoats So and $40,
worth SIS and $I8.
Mems and Young Mems Ov-
ercoatS, $l2 and SIS, worth
$40 and $25.
Mems Trousers ST., SIPS and
$I.5o, worth So and $3.50.
Mems Trousers S 200 and
$3.50, worth So and SIS. so.
Mems Trousers $3.50, So
and$ 5, worth So to ST.
Mems Office Coats so cents
worth ST..
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-25
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25.

We do not read anonymous letters and commun
cations. The name and address of the writer are
ia all cases Indispensable, net necessarily for pub
ication but as guarantee of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-25

Some of the the suggestions made to the
prison committee by Mr.. Thompson are
good and ought to be needed. Others are bad
and ought to be disregarded. The first idea
In selecting trades for the prison ought not
to be making money for the State. Neverthe-
less that idea ought not to be entirely ig-
nored. The product of the prison should be
distributed as widely as possible so as not to
concentrate its competition against a few.
A greater diversity of business ought to
be pursued. The work of the prison is now
concentrated on two trades. This imposes
upon people engaged in those trades more
than fair share of the burden of the sup
port of the prisons. The manufacture of
every part Of an article in the prison would,
in some cases, too much impair the earning
power of the prison and impose needless bur
dens on the tax payers. An infexible rule
that no life convict should be employed at
mechanical labor would not be wise. There
would seem to be no objection to rule re-
quiring that supplies for State institu-
tions, as far as possible, be manufactured at
the prison. Indeed, the inspectors suggested
this before Mr.. Thompson. Improving the
prison grounds would be too unproductiye
labor to set the prisoners at work at, and il
farm should be bought and the convicts set
to farming large expenditure would be nee
essary for guards to prevent the prisoners
escaping. Besides farmers in the vicinity
of the prison who now furnish it with many
Of its supplies, would complain that they
were injured in their business, and with just
as good reason as Mr.. Thompson now com
plains The less the product of prison labor
enters into competition with the free labor of
the State the better, and so all of Mr..
Thompson's suggestions looking to the Sc
lection of industries not practlced to any
considerable extent in the State, and to their
Investigation, are good.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-25

The government win have majority enough
in the next Reichstag to make it plain sail
ing for the Septennate bill. No fiery speeches
from Bismarck will be needed.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-25
cheapness of Natural Gas.

ION City Cor Cincinnati Commercial Gazettel
a stranger sojourning in natural gas
town is amazed at the reckless extravaganza
Win winch consumers use it. 1t blazes away
IN the stores all night and all day. They
charge you so much per month per burner,
or stove, and you need not turn it off at all.
If you do not want to. A base-burner stove
In Mr.. Earseman's Office costs but fifty cents
month, but the regular price is S1.25 per
month. The cheap rates are due to lively
competition between two companies. If well
fed In Cincinnati the same stove would eat
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-25
CITY ELECTION.
MONDAY, MARCH z.
Republican Nominations.
FOR MAYOR,
CHARLES j. CHAPMAN.

WARD i.
AtderDtdli-Rchard X Galley.
CoHncitmeH-GeOrge Trefethen, Francis Hig-
gins j. 7. Hutchinson
Wdrden-H. Z. Dewey.
ttefh-OSnan MunrOe.
tonStaJles-Ruel M. Field, Edward X. Heath.
WARD =.
dtde1mGsl--Isaiah Daniels.
Co,a,citmen-Frank X. Haggett, William Cam
nett, Levi NJ. Blake.
H'drden-Frank Plummer.
Clerk-Thomas Pennel.
School Committee-Ezra Drew.
well.
AIdermdn-H. II. Kicker
Couneiimen-Ozm Adams, Frank H. Cushing,
Alexander T. LaughlIn.
Wdrde1-Albert f. Perry.
Clerk Edward +. TompSon.
ConstdJles-F. 7. Merrill, Z. A. Leighton.
WARD 4.
.4ldermdn-N Nathan K. Redlon.
Co,oacilme,,-L. A. Cloudy, George A. Clark
Charles A. True.
Warden George A. Dow.
CgeKk-J. M. Mason.
School COnllaittee-Ira s. Locke.
Co1aStd&les-A. NJ. Sawyer William p. Larkin.
WARD 5.
Aldermda-William II. Smith.
Cotncil9nen-John f. Rand, John NJ Peck
George w. Sylvester.
Warden-Charles A. Perry.
Ctefk-George l.. Barrows.
ConStdOIes-Wiam Burrowes BENJAMIN McIn
tosh.
WARD q.
Atdermdlt-Willam NJ Marks.
CottncumeI-Ansel G.. Dewey, George H. Alb
bot. Edward W. Kent.
. Wurdon-Josiah II. Drummond, Jr
C1erk-Cbarles A. StrOut.
School ommitee-Albert T. Dunn.
ConstdbleS-Lmcoln $. Ray, S. d. Lincoln.
WARD7
-4idermdf-H Herbert G. Briggs.
Councttmen-yolm 7. Hobbs, Eliphalet G
Spring, James q. McGlaufin.
Warden w. III. Plummer.
CieYk-Wilf0rd G. Chapman.
School COnnaittee-Slas II. McAlpne
Constdbies-Benjamin w. Slower, Benjamin
Burnham.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-25

Boys overcoats ST., and I.5o,
worth 200 and 500.
Boys Knee Pant Suits $500
and $50, worth So and $4.
Boys Knee Pant Suits in
small sizes only $50,
worth 8, 90 to 700.
Boys All Wool Knee Pants,
in sizes q to Is years, only
SI.OO, worth 200.
NoTIcE-3oo Boys fine Seer
sucker Shirt Waists in Sizes
q to I3 years, Is cent quail
ty, at only Is cents each.
Boys Shirt Waists only Is
entS each.
Hundreds of Boys ST., and
l.25 Star Laundered Waists,
in all sizes, at onIv so and
rs cents each.
Mems Brown Duck Jumpers
only 10 cts, so cent quality.
Mems Leather Jackets So.
Mems Cardigan Jackets
200 and ESQ quality at
SI.OO each.
$500 and $50 quality cardi-
gans at $I.5O each.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-25

Sir John Macdonald proposes to retaliate
on the United States by raising the duties on
such articles as we export into Canada He
hopes, he says, in this way to bring the peo-
pie OF the United States to knowledge OF
the fact that the Canadians must have recog-
milton. By recognition he probably means
an equal chance with citizens of the United
States in our own markets. Sir John is not
likely to get that recognition until the Dem
ocrats get fuller possession of our govern
ment Than they enioy at present.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-25
CURRENT COMMENT
NOT SOUND ON SILVER.
prOyifienaa Journal

Providence journal.
The appointment of Speaker Carlisle as
Secretary of the Treasury ought to be i'm
possible to President Cleveland. and an ac-
ceptance ought to be impossible to Speaker
Carlisle. Their views on the question of
honest silver money are incompatible.
MUGwUAPs NOT INFALLIBLE.
New York Graphic.
1t is curious to read the praise of Mr.. Man
ming that appears in the Mugwump newspa-
pers and contrast it with the abuse that was
heaped upon him by those journals when he
went into the Cabinet. Probably he is not
less political leader now than he was then
but of course it will be easy for those able
hair splitters to show that that has nothing
to do with it.
SIMPLY IDIoTIC.
Philadelphia Times.
When it is considered that of the $50, :
600 OF legal tender dollars already coined,
nearly two hundred millions are still in the
Treasury, 1t will strike the average citizen
as, simply idiotic to increase the compulsory
coinage OF needless bastard dollars this year
from 24,OOO,000 to 34,000,000, but the silver
ring, the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and the make.
your-money easy fellows demand it, and
they seem to command the situation.
THE DEPENDENT PENSION BILL
Lowell Courier.
The New York Evening Post sends us a
sheet OF directing letters to the dependent
pension bill, alleged to have been written by
well known soldiers. The names are moi
given, however. We doubt very much il
they were ever written by soldiers. The
first one urges the President to veto the bill
as one framed to 'plunder taxpayers for q
century to come in behalf of lazy and shift
less paupers." That is nice language to use
concerning men who from no fault of their
own have become unable to earn living
Another calls it measure Sin the interest
OF loafers." These letter writers evidently
haven't read the bill.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-25

Sir John Macdonald attributes his success
to his tariff policy. "The manufacturers
and the workingmen." he is quoted as say
ing ''are believers in the National policy, as
was instanced by the return of Conserya-
tives in nearly every Canadian city," The
free traders of the United States can learn
lesson from this election. Protection pulled
Sir John through, though his party had pre-
vlously been beaten in every provincial
election but one, when this question was not
at issua
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-25

A bill is now before the Legislature au-
thorizing the Bosten & Maine railroad to
purchase the Portland & Rochester railroad.
The Legislature has recently passed an act
authorizing the Portland & Rochester rail
road to extend its tracks around the Margin
al Way, and westward to junction with
the Boston g. Maine, the location to be sub
Ject to the approval Of the Mayor and Alder
men Of Portland. Mr.. Charles Mccarthy is
director in the Portland & Rochester rail-
road. Mr.. Charles Mccarthy is also candi-
date for Mayor. If he should be elected, land
the Portland & Rochester should locate the
proposed extension and call upon the Mayor
and Aldermen for their approval, he would
be in a very embarrassing position.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-25

The House has passed the Belmont bill as
substitute for Mr.. Edmundss bill. The
Senate, however, intends to stick to the lat
ter measure. Probably the secret of the
substitution of the Belmont bill in the House
was desire on Me part OF the Democrats to
identify themselves more closely with re-
taliatory measure than they could by adopt
ing bill prepared and first passed by the
Republican Senate. They want to do as
much roaring as possible now to offset their
plaintive bleAting of last summer. There is
IS great deal of buncombe in their per-
formanas,.'
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-25
Are You Familiar with the Plans
or THE
Union Mutual
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
OF PORTLAND, ME!
Doyon realize tia thar this old and sterling com;
in 1913 under the laws of MalneP
A RE you aware that this Company has paid to
- policy-hoders or their representatives more
than TWENTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS?
I has to-day more than SIX MILLION DOL
u LARS N ASSETS, and over THREE HUN
DRIED THOUSAND DOLLARS IN SURPLUS,
calculated by the conservative standards of Maine
and Massachusetts.
1T pays its losses promptly. Its polio les are in
Il contestable after three years.
I 7 has liberal plans. Its affairs are carefully
Il managed by its Board of Directors and on
GERS, whose integrity and ability are unques-
toned.
fTHE wise provisions of the Maine Non-Forfei-
Il ture Law apply only to the policies issued by
this Company, and under its workings extended
insurance is provided for in case of lapse.
TIyHE NEW MAINE LAW CONVERTIBLE
l. POLICY of the UNION MUTUAL contains
every desirable feature in PERFECT LIFE IN
SURANCE POLICY.
Ii you will send your address to the Home Of
ce, or to any Of its agents. shall be glad to fur
nish full Information in regard to the Company
and its plans.
THE UNION MUTUAL appeals to residents of
IL Maine for then especial patronage, because
1t Is HOME COMPANY, and because of its age,
experience, strong, financial condition. large sur
plus, equitable and attractive plans and conserva-
tive management.
DIRECTORS.

DIRECTORS.
EDWARD r. SEccosIB, West Newton. Mass.
HON. JOSIAH IL. DRUMMoND, Portland, Maine
JOHN f. DEWrTT, Portland, Maine
HENRY q. HUTCHIHs, Boston, Mass.
HON PERCIvAL BoNNEY, Portland. Me-
HON. MARQUIS +. KING, Portland Me-
THOMAS A. FOSTER, M. d., Portland, Me.
HON. FRED. K. RICHARDS, Rockport Me-
GEORGE l.. DEBLoIs, Boston, Mass.
EDWARD A. MOVES, Portland, Me-
HoN. FREDERICK RoBIE, Gorham, Me-
FRANK L. ALLEN, Portland Me.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-18
A Girl Wife i'm India.

a remarkable case has just happened,
In which Hindoo girl of seventeen, who
was married in her seventh year, applied
to British court of justice for the resti-
tuition of her conjugal rights on the ground
that as she was married at an age when
she could not exercise her choice, and as
her consent was not taken before she was
united to her present husband, she was
not bound to acknowledge her present
husband as her legal husband The court
which first tried the case decided that the
girl was justified in making the prayer
and granted her application. But this was
against Hindoo law, and ON appeal being
made to the higher tribunal by the
husband of the girl the order of the
lower court was Cancelled, and the girl
was ordered to go to her husband and
acknowledge him as such but the girl is
unyielding, and has declared that she
would not obey the order of the court. The
consequence will be that the girl will have
to go TO Jail. This is n unique case and
first of the kind, and has succeeded in di-
recting the attention of the more intelli-
gent and right thinking of the Hindoo pop
ulation towards the evils of child marriage.
1t is hoped that systematic and deter
mined effort will now be made in order to
put down infant. marriage in India.
gindra Nath Bose in New Orleans Times
Democrat